HUMMINGBIRD

Chapter 2

We have been talking for several hours now and I've messaged Jenna a couple of times to let her know I might be spending the night with a friend. She was pleased I was making friends enough she forgot to ask for the details. Point to me.

"Hey Era do you wanna get out of here?" The manpire asks me after watching me think for a minute.

I check my phone for the time. When I made it to the cemetery it had been 3:30 p.m, then to the grill almost four. Damn we had been talking for almost three and a half hours. "Sure Damon where do you wanna go?" I ask even though the answer is obvious.

"Back to my place of course."

Now let's let it be known that I'm no blushing virgin and I know how to handle the opposite sex. Let it also be known that I feel like said blushing virgin in front of this man. After furiously fighting down my blush I tell him sure I'd love to and we vanish into the night.

The drive to his current place is quiet but after glancing at him I can tell he's thinking of eating me by that smirk on his face. We pull up to a Bed and Breakfast and he gives me a grin.

"Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly." He quotes with a laugh.

"Oh my god Damon are you going to eat me?" He gives me a strange look as he holds open the door to his room.

"In a manner of speaking." He jokes as he captures my lips in a searing kiss. I gasp in slight shock before responding with the same enthusiasm as the back of my knees hit the mattress. What happens next is a flurry of hurried movements and passion.

Collapsing on top of him I try to catch my breath. "Well that was great, but if you don't mind." He trails off as I register an intense pain in the side of my neck then...blackness.

Upon waking the next morning I noticed him standing by the window peering out at the sunrise. "Ya know next time you want a bite just say something you asshole!" I snark at him as I reach up to cup my wounded shoulder.

He whips around with a look of slight bewilderment. "What... I took a chunk out your shoulder and drain most of your blood and all your gonna say is 'ask next time'."

"Well yea."

"No screaming or demanding whys and hows?"

"Nope."

"Why?"

"Your not my first vampire lover though I have to say defiantly the best so far.

"Are you high?"

"Nope wrong Gilbert."

"Gilbert?"

"My last name, now I demand some blood from you I can't walk around Mystic Falls with a gaping bite wound on my shoulder."

He watches me for a moment then bites into his wrist. "I expect answers Ms. Era."

"Sure now cough it up I'm in pain."

Giving me a crooked grin he passes his heavily bleeding wrist to me and I immediately latch onto it. Taking several long pulls I gave a groan of pleasure. For some odd reason I have found that vampire blood tastes amazing to me. It was a cliche moment of stupid on my part when I noticed it as well. I was in the bathroom after spending the night with a friend who for now shall go unnamed when I slipped epically on the slick tiles in front of the shower. I ended up falling through the glass shower stall behind me. After hearing the shattering glass and smelling my blood she had sped into the room. I was in need of medical aid so to avoid a trip to the E.R and almost a hundred stitches she offered up her wrist. It was defiantly an awkward moment when I moaned at the amazing taste which I compare to smooth dark chocolate.

After the same awkward moment with Damon I took a shower and upon getting dressed I was faced with the task of giving the vampire the answers he was wanting.

"Alright fangy ask your questions."

"...How did you know I was a vampire?"

"Simple I had a vampire friend of mine teach me to recognize them, next."

"How long have you known about vampires?"

"Well I have known of Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves since the summer before freshmen year of high school." "Well only vampires since that summer I learned of the other two a little bit after my sixteenth birthday."

"Shortly after I turned sixteen I took a small road trip to Richmond Virginia, they have a small vampire community there and that's where I met my first vampire." "His name is Slater and he runs this information network, he is also the biggest damn nerd I have ever met." He snorts out a cough/laugh thing then gestures for me to continue."Well when I met him I had a small brain fart and blurted out 'vampire' in front of him." "I thought he was going to eat me for a second." "He uhmmm well he laughed his ass off then invited me for a bite whilst flashing me his fangs." "I of course took him up on the offer and we have been friends ever since, He took me to this cafe in the city that caters to vampires mostly." "I occasionally head back to visit, I'll take you next time I go to show you where it is if you want." He gave her an odd look then nodded his assent.

Hopping out of bed I went and searched his clothes for a shirt to wear seeing as the clock said it was nearing first bell and I didn't want to be late for school just to run home and change.

"Give me a ride to school?"

"Sure." And that was that.

Elena Gilbert was not having a good morning. First she had woken up late, to late to tame her naturally curly hair meaning besides the coloring she looked exactly like her twin. Then she discovered Jeremy had taken all the hot water. Going downstairs she found Jenna was gone as was Jeremy oddly enough and there was no coffee in the kitchen, none at all. Then Bonnie texted her saying she couldn't pick her up.

By the time Elena made it to school it was ten minutes after the first bell. Walking into her first class after receiving a scathing remark from Tanner she found her twin in her spot by the window looking amazing as usual... in a Black Sabbath t-shirt? How could her sister look flawless with no effort at all, and in such a shitty shirt? Wait...that's not her shirt Taking a moment to remember she could vaguely recall Jenna saying Sierra was staying with a friend last night... Oh my god she spent the night out with a man! "Hmm I suppose Jenna will want to know."

"Did you say something Elena?" She hears her sister ask from across the aisle.

"Nope."

Damon Salvatore was intrigued. Being almost 170 years old few things or people in this case could get him intrigued. Sierra Gilbert had intrigued him. When he had met her yesterday he had been expecting an alright tumble in the sheets and a good meal. What he got was over three hours of good conversation and an excellent tumble in the sheets. Though he was right about her making a good meal.

However her getting up the next morning and calling him an asshole for not asking was completely unexpected. She had known he was a vampire, had known about vampires for years! Her fucking best friend was a vampire for Pete's sake!

After dropping her off a school he had researched her and found she was related to his father's 'colleague' Johnathan Gilbert. One of the men who was responsible for the vampire round up in 1864. Was very interesting reading then he went to the Salvatore Boarding house to snoop in Stephan's room read a few of his journals, boring , oddly enough he could smell vervain somewhere in the house. He started investigating when he heard Stephan's little car pull into the driveway, abandoning his search he caught his first glimpse of his brother in fifteen years.

Good lord he still had hero hair.

"Aunt Jenna I'm home!" I called upon entering the front door.

"Oh my god you had sex yesterday Sierra Jennet!?"

"Yes?"

"...Was it good?"

"Aunt Jenna!" "Your supposed to be yelling at her for being reckless." She could hear Elena hissing from behind the doorway.

Sigh "It was excellent Aunt Jenna, yes we used protection and I even took a morning after pill, even though I'm on birth control." "I was going to meet him later if that's alright with you?"

"Sure but remember protection!"

Damon's phone rang. He glanced down and saw it was Sierra's number. "This is Damon."

"Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" Her slightly husky voice came over the line.

He grinned.

"Oui."